Barely any sign of an organised relief effort was visible outside Nepal's capital on Sunday, as aid agencies struggled to fly and truck relief supplies to a country stricken by its worst earthquake in eight decades.

Four days after up to 900 desperate people drowned trying to reach Europe from Libya, EU leaders agreed on Thursday to triple its naval search mission in the Mediterranean, restoring its funding to last year's level.

''With the Ebola virus disease, one can never be sure how the day turns out.’’ This bleak line comes not from an Ebola patient, but from the first doctor from India who volunteered in western Africa where the disease has claimed over 6,000 lives sinc